Stacked Deck
Kevin Stani opened with a raise to 70,000, and in the small blind, Arnaud Mattern reraised to 255,000. Then the big blind, Konstantin Bilyauer, put his enormous stack to use, cold four-betting to 630,000. That mean that Stani really had to make a decision for his whole stack, and he agonized over it. He took his glasses off, staring at the huge bet. After a few minutes, he folded. That left the decision to Arnaud. "You show if I fold?" he asked Bilyauer.
Mattern mucked his pocket jacks face up, and Bilyauer tabled . Stani looked ill. "I folded the best hand," he said. If Stani had queens like he claimed, Bilyauer likely saved Mattern some money.
After the hand finished, everyone moved to their new seats at the nine-handed last table.